The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-10-28

the criminal part of the work. In order
to better protect the friendless girl who
was then Is years old, he sent for priest
and made her the Countess de Lundi. A
few hours after the ceremony he was dead;
and two days later Lady Anna died. Both
were buried in Dayton.
Sophia Adelaide and her maid then went
to New Orleans, to live in the family of
Mr.. Pierce, friend of the late Count
Lundi. While there she received letters
from s'Uncle Edward, y who urged her to
return to England, and assured her of
safe s'retreat.' The retreat did not al
lure her. She wrote ''Uncle Edward
that she would prefer to remain in America
for o time, at least. He grew angry at
her refusal, and after writing her q few
mandatory letters ceased to write her
altogether.
Since then she has lived mostly in Eu-
rope. The last eight years of her life
were spent in France. In Cincinnati the
for1orn princess married a lawyer, whom
she had engaged to look after her affairs.
She was subsequently, divorced from him,
and, she says, he then married her maid.
For o long time, when she wanted
money, she wrote to the Rev. Edward
Bouverie, Colehill vicarage, Wiltshire,
England, and got it. He died in 1875.
John Brown, the queens faithful hench-
man, gave her money from time to time,
and once when the queen was ill John
Brown took Sophia Adelaide to Windsor
castle, where she stayed all night, but
was sent away in the morning. because
the queen was better.
After John Brown died she got no more
money. She says she has written to
Queen Victoria and to the Prince of
Wales, but receives no reply. In Berlin
she felt so forlorn and abandoned that she
became well nigh desperate. She wrote
to the crown princess and asked to be
taken into the royal household as gov
erness, proposition which was not ac-
cepted In Paris M. Mendes, of The Gil
Bias newspaper, and Lesclede, private sec
retary to Victer Hugo, wrote something
about her, which was suppressed in Eng
land and Germany. Edmund Yates
spoke guardedly of her in The London
World, and SO did Vanity Fair. The
Paris papers took up her story and talked
about it extensively. She says she has
been followed and bounded by detectives
all over Europe. In Paris she was perse
cuted outrageously. There she was
known as the Comtesse de Lundi; but
here she uses the name of Kent.
Mrs. Kent came to the United States
last May, and has been busy ever since
preparing her book and engaging pub
Usher. Her story is written in the first
person, and, apart from the question of
its truthfulness, is decidedly interesting
in itself, and quite capable of engaging
the attention of the public on its own
merits.
She is AZ years of age, has an astonish-
ingly fresh complexion, brown hair and
large, light gray eyes. Nobody could ae-
cuse Mrs. Kent of insanity. She seems to
have a clear head and good business
judgment. Her object in coming to Amer
lea is to publish her book, make money
and pay off the debts she was obliged to
contract in Paris. She had barely enough
funds for her immediate living expenses
when she arrived. She lives at modest
boarding house. She also asserts that
Pope Leo XIII is in possession of the rec
ords establishing her story.